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In the churches of England or of Rome, though he sometimes looked wistfully towards the latter, Theophilus Londonderry, with his disabilities of worldly condition, would have found no place to be himself in. His was an organism that could not long have breathed in any rigid organisation. It was the non-establishment, the comparative free-field, of Nonconformity that gave him his chance.
Julius Caesar had burnt more than half; the Patriarchs of Alexandria had not only permitted but superintended the dispersion of almost all the rest. Orosius expressly states that he saw the empty cases or shelves of the library twenty years after Theophilus, the uncle of St. Cyril, had procured from the Emperor Theodosius a rescript for its destruction.
By special favor, moreover, the Pope dispensed the new Cardinal from the duty of going to Rome in person, and despatched his chamberlain, Theophilus Friso, to Brussels, with the red hat and tabbard.
Theophilus Jones raised himself from the counter on which he was leaning, and waved a lighted candle above his head. "Here comes the teacher make way for the teacher!" Josiah Nummler pounded the floor with his long pole. "See the conquerin' hero comes," he cried. "A place for him a place for him!"
During the episcopate of Theophilus, predecessor of Cyril, a riot took place between the Christians and the Pagans, and the latter "held the Serapion as their head-quarters. Such were the disorder and bloodshed that the emperor had to interfere. To Christian bigotry it is that we owe the loss of these rich treasures of antiquity. Heresies grew and strengthened during this fourth century.
If you are left in any distress or perplexity, go either to Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe's house, or to that of my good old friend, the Dean of Westminster; and as soon as I hear from you I will endeavour to ride to town and bring you home to my house, which is greatly at a loss without its young mistress.
Moncton as usual addressed his conversation exclusively to me, which irritated Theophilus to such a degree, that he turned suddenly to his father, and exclaimed with much violence: "You seem, sir, to forget you have a son?" "Yes, when that son forgot what was due to himself, and to his father's house." "You have to thank yourself for that," was the insolent reply.
In the sixth century Theophilus of Syracuse was said to have sold himself to the devil and to have been saved from damnation only by the miraculous intervention of the Virgin Mary, who visited hell and bore away the damnable compact. So far as his bond was concerned, Theophilus was said to have had eight successors among the Popes of Rome.
Then she noted the Comes, as he whispered soothing words in the prelate's ear, praying him perhaps to spare the statue not as an idol, but as a work of art; as he turned from Theophilus with a shrug; and then her heart stood still, and she had to cling to the curtain he pointed to the statue, with a nod of intelligence to Constantine.
Put him to work, and if he disobeys, shuffles or evades in any manner, hit him over the head with anything that you can find hard enough or heavy enough to make an impression. Wishing the Army of Northern Virginia the continued and brilliant success that has attended it heretofore, I remain, Your most obedient servant, THEOPHILUS MONCRIEFFE.
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